If it's broke, where's fixit?

[Andreas Tobler]

Hallo Horst,

Horst Günther Burkhardt III wrote:

> I just made a few configurative screwups. Ones which are stopping the
> system from booting.
> 
> (lol, i stuffed up an fstab entry)
> 
> Once the boot process attempts to drop into single-user mode, it outputs
> the following error every thirty seconds before being arrested by a
> Ctrl-Alt-Delete forcing the machine down : 
> 
> bsdbox init: can't get /dev/console for controlling terminal: Operation
> not permitted
> 
> ... Is there a fixit image for ppc? If not, why not? If yes, where?
> Also if not, what can be recommended to get me a working fbsd live
> system for just long enough to fix the REAL one?

I do not know about a 'fixit' image. But I recently had a similar issue 
where I ended up in installing the whole dist from scratch again.
Not that bad, I'm working with fbsd sitting on a fw (firewire) disk, not 
on the internal one. I screwed one disk and I was not able to get it 
back. So I took a new fw disk, did it again and now I can play. But I 
was not able to resurect the first fw disk so far, I guess it might be 
due to fw issues. I chained them together but I was not able to access 
the bad disk.

But, the idea you might try is to install a minimal fbsd installation on 
a second disk, might be fw, and boot from there and resurect the bad 
entry in fstab.

Regards,
Andreas